Social and Moral Reform 1994
DOI: 10.1515/9783110971095.685
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Ladies' Day at the Capitol: Women Strike for Peace Versus Huac

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“…It frequently encountered pointed patriarchal critiques and successfully fought extravagant charges of communist infiltration by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1962. 83 WSP's founding members and "key women"-politically astute and experienced in social activism-understood the importance of crafting a moderate, maternal image to stymie such criticism. 84 In this sense, at least for public relations, WSP adopted similarly limited expectations for its activists' behavior as the press and the general public.…”
Section: Wsp's Complicated Sympathiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It frequently encountered pointed patriarchal critiques and successfully fought extravagant charges of communist infiltration by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1962. 83 WSP's founding members and "key women"-politically astute and experienced in social activism-understood the importance of crafting a moderate, maternal image to stymie such criticism. 84 In this sense, at least for public relations, WSP adopted similarly limited expectations for its activists' behavior as the press and the general public.…”
Section: Wsp's Complicated Sympathiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When subsequently summoned before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), established to identify political subversives, they invoked supposed gender differences between the masculine and feminine mind to deflect their male interrogators' questions and justified their activities on the basis of a maternalist, and thus purer, form of patriotism. 11 The 1930s was a watershed for consumer activism, as politicized consumers, outraged by the egregious injustices of the Great Depression, shifted direct challenges to the market to the center of the political economy. Consumer protest tapped a vein of popular discontent, as radicalized women and their male supporters mobilized to demand state intervention in the markets that had failed so dramatically.…”
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confidence: 99%